Heilig-Geist-Kirche

Friendly and attentive staff. Delicious regional food. Cozy garden. Centrally located without being a tourist atmosphere.

Central yet easily accessible venue on the edge of Fuzo in Passau. The former church hosts cultural and musical events.

History of the Holy Spirit Foundation and its church In 1347 Urban Gundacker, the rich, respected city judge and princely mint master and his housewife Plektraud built a chapel with the permission of Prince-Bishop Gottfried von Weisseneck and the cathedral chapter on the back street in Neumarkt. They gave an annual pension of 12 pounds Passau pennies. The chapel was consecrated to the Holy Spirit and to Our Lady. 11 years later, - the endowment certificate bears the date of October 5, 1358 - they founded the Holy Spirit Hospital. In the original parchment certificate, with which Prince-Bishop Gottfried confirmed the foundation, the following is noted: "that the new hospital should take over poor men and not fools, who have come from their possessions and can no longer work before sickness. Three of these prebendaries are to be priests and to celebrate Holy Mass daily in the house of God Soon after this foundation, today's Holy Spirit Church is said to have been built. Mayor Wenzel Gerhard increased the Gundacker Foundation so much that, according to the deed of donation of 1445, the church could be decisively enlarged and almost completely rebuilt. The original chapel was a hospital of the old type with a rib-vaulted church room and directly adjoining ward. The extension after 1445 brought another with ribbed vaults ship north of the old chapel and the choir with it. Two-nave and generous Befensterung is special about the remarkable church space In later times, the chapel received a Baroque decor corresponding to the taste of the time. The original arched windows were rounded. With secularization in 1803, the administration of the foundation was transferred from the prince-bishop to the city. The church remained unchanged for half a century. It was not until Bishop Heinrich Hofstätter, who was particularly close to the heart of the church, that a purification was carried out in 1851 and that it was furnished in the purest neo-gothic style. He paid from his private box. In particular, he put emphasis on glass paintings, which he had made by the Fa Scherer one of the first workshops in Bavaria. He also brought numerous epitaphs of red marble from other churches here. Today is no longer detectable if z. B. the tracery of the windows was the original building or freely imitated. One hundred years later, people were completely dissatisfied with the Gothic Revival and the city decided to make a thorough renovation in the style of the 1950s. Altarpiece by Passau painter Franz Spann, organ balustrade with the Stations of the Cross by the artist Gretli Fuchs, a new wrought iron lattice gave the room a different character. The organ removed from the cathedral choir was placed on the gallery and the northern façade. The mentor of this institution was the cathedral conductor Monsignor Max Tremml. In 1989, in the church, which was the school church of all the surrounding schools, which enjoyed great popularity as a place of worship and which was a valued wedding church, the last service was celebrated. In 1999, the church was profaned. It should now be a versatile event space. The non-profit Friends of the Holy Spirit Church e. V. was recently formed to achieve this goal.

Beautiful Christmas day spent